{"id":8539,"date":"2018-04-10T22:45:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2018-04-10T22:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T21:45:22","slug":"something-had-to-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/04\/something-had-to-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Had To Give…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of you may have seen this rather unhappy photo I posted on our Facebook page last week, showing our centrifuge with its guts hanging out. The motor had packed up at the most inopportune moment, as these things tend to do. Fortunately, a) we have a spare at the workshop (a legacy of the last time the centrifuge chose to pack up) and b) I had my tools in the car, so I was able to replace the motor. It took the best part of six hours to get it up and running again, so I lost virtually a full day’s work in the run up to the biggest show of the year.<\/p>\n

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I’ve done my best to make up the time, but with effectively only two working days left until Salute (Friday is set-up day) it’s obvious that I’m not quite going to get everything done that I planned to. Something has to give, so I’ve made the decision that unless some sort of miracle happens and Thursday becomes 28 hours long, we will not be bringing the Land Ironclads range with us on Saturday<\/strong>. LI is a large range that needs quite a bit of restocking and I just don’t see that I’m going to have time. If you were planning to buy any Land Ironclads from us, send us an email before Thursday lunchtime and I’ll do my best to accommodate.<\/p>\n

Today was my last full day of casting stock (I have a little more to do on Thursday) and I’m almost done with new releases, just a couple of bits left to cast plus replenishing existing 6mm stocks. I don’t think I’ve ever used as much resin as I have in the last month, Centurions are big beasts…<\/p>\n

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